re: 20 greatest stand up comedians

1. Carlin

2. Pryor

3. Cosby

4. Foxworthy

5. Clower

Each created a unique style and were funny.

You forgot Sinbad

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Paul Mooney

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He is good. So uncomfortable to listen to in an interview. I love that

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Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Griffin
Chris Rock
Dave Chappelle
Bernie Mac
Earthquake
Redd Foxx
Sheryl Underwood
Flip Wilson
Katt Williams
Paul Rodriquez
DeRay Davis
Bruce Bruce
Arnez J
D.L. Hughely
Paul Mooney
Lavell Crawford
MoNique
Steve Harvey
Cedric The Entertainer
Summore

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what, no alonzo jones or shucky ducky?

but seriously, you left robin harris off the list.

Please do not allow the hipster anarchists to put Hicks on this list.

Terribly overrated.

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alonzo jones
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Hammmmmmburger!

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i'm glad someone got that. and yes

I highly, highly recommend Jay Mohr's 2nd podcast w/ Tom Segura "Black People at the Beach" on Kevin Smith's Smodcast. Hysterical.

Also one of my favorite bits of all time is Chris Rock's Columbine rant.

"fricking trench coat mafia. 'Nobody likes us, boohoo we got no friends.' shite I seen their yearbook, there were 6 of them mother frickers. 6 of 'em!!

I ain't have 6 friends in high school, hell I ain't have 6 friends now! shite, thats 3 on 3 with a halfcourt."

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Please do not allow the hipster anarchists to put Hicks on this list.

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If you're looking to Hicks for political philosophy, you deserve what you get. We are talking about a guy whose belief system is structutred on getting abducted by a UFO.

That said, Hicks was great at deconstructing language, second only to Carlin in that regard. He was just terrific at pointing out the absurdity of things, propped up by language. He was really quite funny. So funny that Denis Leary could make a career out of ripping off his act (not entirely fair, as Leary eventually found his own material). But there is the old comedians' joke: Why is Denis Leary famous? Because there is no cure for cancer.

mitch hedberg
gilbert gottfried
bill cosby
seinfeld
norm mcdonald
richard lewis
EDIT: how could I leave off Jay Mohr


If I had shitty taste in comedy

dane cook
carlos menstealia
whitney cummings
lewis black
kings of comedy
blue collar comedy tour
pretty much every standup they put on comedy central
oh...and I can't stand richard pryor

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Chappelle is a good call, but a short yet brillaint career. He's a comet, but he's done nothing for about a decade now.

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No taped specials or anything, but he still does standup.

His problem is he went crazy at the height of his career.

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but like chappelle or alot of good african american standups he got caught in "the difference between black people and white people" routine

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For about 20 minutes of his first taped special he did the whole "black people do this, white people do that" routine. The rest is just observational comedy from a black perspective. If Dave was just a black/white comedian, he would have never become so popular. There are a million of those around.

Chappelle having fun at the expense of def comedy jam.